BEER BLAMED.

NZ Truth, Issue 198, 3 April 1909, Page 6

BEER BLAMED.

Shocking Some Females.

■William Otto Engel talks \vith a German burr m his throat, and got drunk •with mortification m Uhristchurch when lie nad. m the evening- sausage wrapper ii-ot .io'p. Wa.nl i had offered a Dreadnought to the Admiralty to pump lead into his countrymen m the Faderlaaid. The Leer was very potent, but was no excuse for his conduct m exposing his person within view of some ladies at 5 p.m. m Man-chester-street. Two femaVss were called to testify to the horrid thing, hut Otto, who is young and beardless, explained' that owing to the strength of the Christchurch beer, m comparison with his native lager, his mind sin regard to the events of the previous evening was

a complete blafllc.' Perhaps if the Government were' to despatch a few thousand barrels of XXXXto the Worth Sea, the invader would succumb more readily than to a Dreadnought. Otto made an obscene proposal to one of the women. "I wouldn't bring myself .to repeat the expression," she said, and after that the 'Teuton's cake was dough. Magistrate Day remarked that Otto's conduct was not to be tolerated,, and it was icgrettable that w,omen couldn't walk about the streets of Ghristchurch without ucing molested m ; tins way. SEVEN DAYS' HARD. Although it- took place m the same street at a later hour, there was something different about the offence of Lawrence Tillett (no relation to Ben), who was charged with committing a grosslyindecent act by obeying a call of nature [m the public street. Magistrate Day held that the section of. the Police Offences Act relating t.o an indecent act didn't apply m such cases, and Sub-In-spector McGrath, ,who is new (o the South, said he wasn't aware that the view m question was taken by his Worship. Mr Day .said he was apt aiotie m the opinion, which had been endor«3:l by the S.M. m Dunedin. Tillett was thcu dealt with under the city by-laws as having committed a nuisance'- ill the, public street, and as it was shown that he was m a state of beer at the time he was fined a dollar and costs on each of the "two charges, ,or twenty-four hours m Cleary's fortress by the sea. ;